We cordially invite you to join us for our summer kick-off and the opening of our new collection presentation Auf dem Vulkan with an all-day program on Sunday, June 30, 2024 from 11 am. This year, Ludwig Forum Aachen is persuing the specific goal of placing greater emphasis on its own collections. In addition to […]
For Paula Erstmann, food is an artistic medium she uses to initiate dialogue with her audience. What stories do the food we eat tell us? And, indeed, what about the cutlery and dishes, the tablecloth and the table at which we eat? What collective memories are prompted? Interested in the origins and contexts of ingredients […]
The three-part multi-monitor installation Earth, Moon, Sun (1990) by the video artist Nam June Paik (1932 – 2006) is one of the main works in the Aachen collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig. It impressively demonstrates how Paik, who lived in the Rhineland from 1958 to 1963, pushed ahead with the use of new technology […]
A collection presentation with works by Jean-Michel Alberola, Paweł Althamer, Belkis Ayón, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Erik Bulatov, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Walter Dahn, Fischli/Weiss, Wang Guangyi, Richard Hamilton, Duane Hanson, Joan Jonas, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nadenka Creative Association, Bruce Nauman, Hilka Nordhausen, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara), Robert Rauschenberg, Rissa, Ulrike […]
Curator Galina Dekova will guide through her exhibition Fragments of a Reality That Once Was. Encounters with Ukraine in the Ludwig Collection and will give insights into her work as a research fellow (NRW Art Museums). The guided tour will be held in German.
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Reading with Helene Hegemann and actress Lavinia Wilson followed by a conversation with Eva Birkenstock (Director, Ludwig Forum Aachen) and Hermann Müller (Freelance Curator for Literature, Berlin).With Schlachtensee (2022), Helene Hegemann explodes in fifteen episodes all the categories through which we try to understand the present. (Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishers)Admission: 10 Euro / 7 Euro […]
Curator Galina Dekova will guide through her exhibition Fragments of a Reality That Once Was. Encounters with Ukraine in the Ludwig Collection and will give insights into her work as a research fellow (NRW Art Museums). The guided tour will be held in German. Photo: Mareike Tocha.
Guided tour through the exhibition Terrestrial Perspectives. An exhibition about land art, land use and ecology with works from the collections of the Ludwig Forum Aachen and beyond with Fanny Hauser, deputy director. The guided tour will be held in German. Image: Terrestrial Perspectives, exhibition vies Ludwig Forum Aachen, 2024, photo: Mareike Tocha.
As part of the exhibition program of Terrestrial Perspectives, artist Silke Schatz will guide a walk through Manheim. Schatz explores the transformation processes in the Rhenish coalmining area, accompanying in particular the disappearance of Manheim, the last village according to the plans of the NRW state government and the energy company RWE, which is to […]
